Meet the first New Brunswick babies born in 2023

New Brunswick’s health authorities have released the names of the province’s first babies born in 2023.

Vitalité Health Network said baby Emily Gagnon was born at 5:04 a.m. on Jan. 1, making her the province’s first baby this year.

Born at the Chaleur Regional Hospital in Bathurst, Gagnon weighed in at 2.9 kilograms.

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Shortly after, baby Phoebe Shannan was born at the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre in Moncton, at 8:49 a.m.

Her parents are Patience Safford and Christopher Shannan. She weighed 3.4 kilograms.

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Horizon Health Network marked their first birth of the year shortly after, at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Fredericton.

Baby Alexander was born at 10:28 a.m. at Horizon’s Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Fredericton on Jan. 1, weighing in at just under three kilograms.

“Alexander and his mom are resting and doing well,” Horizon wrote in a Facebook post.

In neighbouring Nova Scotia, the province’s biggest children’s hospital marked its first baby at 3 a.m. on Sunday.

The IWK Health Centre in Halifax said the family was unavailable for media.